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Daugherty16 · March 6, 2013, 10:42 PM

this isn't the typical rail-against-the-better-armed-cops-i-might-have-to-oppose-when-the-govt-turns-tyrannical type of rant. Turning that tired diatribe on its head, if the cops "need" body armor, automatic weapons, hi-cap mags, etc to fight crime, then it is axiomatic that we the citizenry "'need" the same, since in a self-defense scenario we are really the first responders, aren't we? Long before the cops show up, god bless them, even before there is time to call them, we would have to confront/repel the same criminal element they face.

God knows, if i ever reached the decision to pull the trigger, i'd want the best and highest capacity arms available. Just like the police do.

March 6, 2013, 10:42 PM	#6
Daugherty16 Senior Member Join Date: July 10, 2008 Location: Live Free or Die state Posts: 259	Good post, interesting angle. this isn't the typical rail-against-the-better-armed-cops-i-might-have-to-oppose-when-the-govt-turns-tyrannical type of rant. Turning that tired diatribe on its head, if the cops "need" body armor, automatic weapons, hi-cap mags, etc to fight crime, then it is axiomatic that we the citizenry "'need" the same, since in a self-defense scenario we are really the first responders, aren't we? Long before the cops show up, god bless them, even before there is time to call them, we would have to confront/repel the same criminal element they face. God knows, if i ever reached the decision to pull the trigger, i'd want the best and highest capacity arms available. Just like the police do. __________________ "To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness... How pathetic." - - Ted Nugent "Cogito, Ergo Armitum Sum" - (I Think, Therefore I Am Armed)- - anon.